The Stillness of the Wind

The stillness of the wind delivers a great experience for the short playtime you need to complete the game. It completely captivated my attention with just the few tasks you can do in one day. Milking the goats, making cheese, getting fresh eggs from the chickens, or tending to your crops. The days are short, and the only person who comes by is the local trader, who seems to be the only real contact we have, aside from the letters from our family. While it does make you feel isolated, looking at the deserted location around your little farm, it also makes you feel at home. Later, there are sometimes wolves at night, and you should protect your goats from them. I know I am not close to the end yet, but I also hope it still takes a while since it is really enjoyable, and I wish for a good ending. This lady must have had an impressive life, and now she has a tiny spot for herself and her livestock.

finished the game wishing i'd brought more trinkets, but i am a hay hoarder at heart.

This game was a sad yet beautiful testament to the passing of time but it honestly didn’t meet my expectations, I actually found it a bit disappointing but there were still certainly things I enjoyed. I’ll start with my critiques to end on a high note… I didn’t love the lack of outlining your tasks around the farm and how I truly just had to figure it out as I went and as a result didn’t even discover most of the chores until later in the game, but this apparently didn’t matter either way as the farm was slowly inevitably destroyed. The gameplay itself was quite uncomfortable and unsatisfying, and generally felt clunky and amateurly made, the movement controls weren’t fun either, tedious. And I get the game was about slow living and experiencing an older persons routine and last days, but Talma was way too slow, it was unbearable. Other than this uncomfortable farming sim gameplay with no real purpose, there were only letters from Talma’s family living far away. Reading them was a slog and they featured characters I barely learned about and had very little time to invest in or care about before they were taken from me altogether. And finally, the actual portrayal of the story and i…

Sound design and writing some of the most beautiful of any indie game I have played. Very sad so prepare yourself...

I love this game. I hate this game. My goats :(

Heavyweight contender for the worst game I've ever played. I might have been able to be charitable to the rather confusing and unfinished story because of theme and world building (what there is of it) if it wasn't for the not just slow and tedious but flat out broken and arbitrary gameplay, It's basically 10 letters spaced at 2-3 per hour sandwiched between the game refusing to let you do--either by glitch, "misclick," or just to be annoying--any of the things you could do other than just sit and wait for four hours. That's pretty much it, wait for letters. Actually that would have probably been a better game.